[mary-dev] Problem trying to add pt_BR - PhoneUnitLabelComputer step

[Ingmar Steiner]

Dear Fábio,

glad to see you found the cause of the issue so quickly!

I agree that it would be slightly more elegant to support those locales 
that use a comma as the decimal separator (BP, German, etc.).

However, I'm not convinced (just yet) that this is a clean solution. As 
far as I'm aware, the Xwaves lab file format does not allow commas as 
decimal separators, and Mary's XwavesLabelfileDataSource class is 
certainly not the only program that rejects files as malformed that do 
not adhere to the format.

The question that arises is how your lab file was created. Was it some 
component of the Mary voicebuilding toolchain?

Best wishes,

-Ingmar

On 26.02.2011 13:57, Fábio Marinho wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a Java developer and personally interested in building a natural
> voice for Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR).
>
> I am following all steps in "Adding New Language Support" development
> page of Open MARY.
>
> Everything was ok so far, but then I got stucked in
> PhoneUnitLabelComputer step of the ImportVoice GUI:
>
> TRACE:
>
> Computing unit labels for 15 files.
>  From phonetic label files:
> /home/fmarinho/Desenvolvimento/TTS/minhavoz/lab/*.lab
> To       unit label files:
> /home/fmarinho/Desenvolvimento/TTS/minhavoz/phonelab/*.lab
> Malformed line found outside of header:
> 0,070000 125 _
> java.lang.Exception: The component PhoneUnitLabelComputer produced the
> following exception:
> at
> marytts.tools.voiceimport.DatabaseImportMain$8.run(DatabaseImportMain.java:294)
> Caused by: java.io.IOException
> at
> marytts.util.data.text.XwavesLabelfileDataSource.parseLabels(XwavesLabelfileDataSource.java:157)
> at
> marytts.util.data.text.XwavesLabelfileDataSource.<init>(XwavesLabelfileDataSource.java:71)
> at
> marytts.util.data.text.XwavesLabelfileDataSource.<init>(XwavesLabelfileDataSource.java:58)
> at
> marytts.tools.voiceimport.PhoneUnitLabelComputer.computePhoneLabel(PhoneUnitLabelComputer.java:138)
> at
> marytts.tools.voiceimport.PhoneUnitLabelComputer.compute(PhoneUnitLabelComputer.java:119)
> at
> marytts.tools.voiceimport.DatabaseImportMain$8.run(DatabaseImportMain.java:291)
>
>
> MY ENVIRONMENT:
> Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Lucid Lynx
> java version "1.6.0_22"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_22-b04)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 17.1-b03, mixed mode)
>
>
> I think that maybe it could be a simple detail that I am missing. So
> before trying to debug the code in Eclipse, I would appreciate any help
> on that.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
>
>
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-- 
Ingmar Steiner
Postdoctoral Researcher

LORIA Speech Group, Nancy, France
National Institute for Research in
Computer Science and Control (INRIA)